Pretty much an insta-reaction.
Episode 4x05: Categories of Life
Oh, Vera, oh my god. ;____;
How horrifying was that? I kept scoffing at the idea that they'd be able to successfully top the horror of Children of Earth, but with this episode, they've already done it for me. And there are still five more episodes. How fucking dark is this going to get? Where the fuck do we go from something that's basically a concentration camp?!
I loved the variety of interaction between the characters this week: Jack and Esther, Gwen finally seeing her family again (Anwen continues to be the cutest baby, even in that silly pink headband), Jack and Oswald, Vera and Torchwood. The entire first half of the episode was ♥♥♥! I'll admit, my thoughts on that stuff are kind of overshadowed by the level of WTF (good WTF, as opposed to "ugh, this was stupid and terrible" WTF) I'm feeling about the last ten minutes right now, so I might have more to say about the earlier scenes when I re-watch.
Jilly and Oswald were fantastic this week. She so doesn't give two shits about him, just as long as he delivers the message. He is basically an unruly client who thinks he knows best and doesn't want to do what the PR professional (and his bosses) tells him to do. And that moment when he decided to go off book and give that crazy speech about how we're all angels now? I like how they tried to make it seem as though he could go either way, but it was really clear to me that Oswald's only out for one thing: himself. He doesn't care at all about the human race, about making things right again, he just wants to go where the action is.
Jack could not be more wrong about Oswald's motivation. He doesn't want to die; he wants to kill again. And that's the only reason he'd even consider helping Jack. But he probably figures that if the Miracle is reversed, he'll end up dead, so no joy there. I think Jack is reading his own feelings about killing a child into Oswald's actions. He can't understand the mindset of someone who would do what Oswald did and revel in it, because Steven's death destroyed him. The idea that someone wouldn't feel that way is just not even on Jack's radar.
I really feel for Gwen, here. She wants so much to protect her dad, but everything she tried just put him in danger. Too bad the Torchwood name doesn't hold any sway anymore, because you could just tell she wanted to tell that military guy that Torchwood needed a patient removed. In the past, that would have worked, too. At least she and Rhys were able to get into the overflow camp and find out what's really going on. Now we'll see if they can do anything about it.
Rex and Esther were great with their plan to get Rex into the camp (lololol at Jack's "boyfriend" comment; nice trolling there, Harkness) and then into the module to investigate. I hope they got some great footage that they can do some real damage with. These bastards deserve the worst possible punishment for this. And even though I said in my last review that I want aliens to be involved, I'd almost love it more if humans were the ones in ultimate control. No one does worse things to us than we do. History is proof enough of that.
And Vera. Damn, she was fierce. So horrified at the conditions of the camp and the treatment the "patients" were getting, that she confronted that guy (ugh, what a creeper! I need a shower after his scenes) without any thought for her own safety. And what really makes it terrible is that those gunshots were totally treatable. She wasn't bleeding enough (or unconscious enough) to have severed an artery, and they were in locations that she would have recovered from without too much trouble. I'm not medically inclined, but I do watch a lot of TV/movies where people get shot, and mortal wounds on TV tend to bleed much more than that. So she would have been fine. D:
I am really going to miss her.
So, aliens using humans, or humans using aliens, or aliens in league with humans. Whatever the case may be, there had better be some alien-related stuff that isn't the Torchwood software or those contact lenses. I'm just saying.
The man with the blue eyes who stopped Jilly to talk to her backstage before Oswald's speech. I think he's the one behind this. And I'm firmly willing to eat my words, but it was a total gut reaction. If he's not behind it, he's certainly right at the top.
In conclusion, damn, Jane Espenson! Write for all of my shows, for real!
And I'm sure there are other things I want to talk about, but this window has been open for the last 45 minutes with nothing more added, so I'll stop and see if LJ will let me post this. And then to bed!
Oh, Vera, oh my god. ;____;
How horrifying was that? I kept scoffing at the idea that they'd be able to successfully top the horror of Children of Earth, but with this episode, they've already done it for me. And there are still five more episodes. How fucking dark is this going to get? Where the fuck do we go from something that's basically a concentration camp?!
I loved the variety of interaction between the characters this week: Jack and Esther, Gwen finally seeing her family again (Anwen continues to be the cutest baby, even in that silly pink headband), Jack and Oswald, Vera and Torchwood. The entire first half of the episode was ♥♥♥! I'll admit, my thoughts on that stuff are kind of overshadowed by the level of WTF (good WTF, as opposed to "ugh, this was stupid and terrible" WTF) I'm feeling about the last ten minutes right now, so I might have more to say about the earlier scenes when I re-watch.
Jilly and Oswald were fantastic this week. She so doesn't give two shits about him, just as long as he delivers the message. He is basically an unruly client who thinks he knows best and doesn't want to do what the PR professional (and his bosses) tells him to do. And that moment when he decided to go off book and give that crazy speech about how we're all angels now? I like how they tried to make it seem as though he could go either way, but it was really clear to me that Oswald's only out for one thing: himself. He doesn't care at all about the human race, about making things right again, he just wants to go where the action is.
Jack could not be more wrong about Oswald's motivation. He doesn't want to die; he wants to kill again. And that's the only reason he'd even consider helping Jack. But he probably figures that if the Miracle is reversed, he'll end up dead, so no joy there. I think Jack is reading his own feelings about killing a child into Oswald's actions. He can't understand the mindset of someone who would do what Oswald did and revel in it, because Steven's death destroyed him. The idea that someone wouldn't feel that way is just not even on Jack's radar.
I really feel for Gwen, here. She wants so much to protect her dad, but everything she tried just put him in danger. Too bad the Torchwood name doesn't hold any sway anymore, because you could just tell she wanted to tell that military guy that Torchwood needed a patient removed. In the past, that would have worked, too. At least she and Rhys were able to get into the overflow camp and find out what's really going on. Now we'll see if they can do anything about it.
Rex and Esther were great with their plan to get Rex into the camp (lololol at Jack's "boyfriend" comment; nice trolling there, Harkness) and then into the module to investigate. I hope they got some great footage that they can do some real damage with. These bastards deserve the worst possible punishment for this. And even though I said in my last review that I want aliens to be involved, I'd almost love it more if humans were the ones in ultimate control. No one does worse things to us than we do. History is proof enough of that.
And Vera. Damn, she was fierce. So horrified at the conditions of the camp and the treatment the "patients" were getting, that she confronted that guy (ugh, what a creeper! I need a shower after his scenes) without any thought for her own safety. And what really makes it terrible is that those gunshots were totally treatable. She wasn't bleeding enough (or unconscious enough) to have severed an artery, and they were in locations that she would have recovered from without too much trouble. I'm not medically inclined, but I do watch a lot of TV/movies where people get shot, and mortal wounds on TV tend to bleed much more than that. So she would have been fine. D:
I am really going to miss her.
So, aliens using humans, or humans using aliens, or aliens in league with humans. Whatever the case may be, there had better be some alien-related stuff that isn't the Torchwood software or those contact lenses. I'm just saying.
The man with the blue eyes who stopped Jilly to talk to her backstage before Oswald's speech. I think he's the one behind this. And I'm firmly willing to eat my words, but it was a total gut reaction. If he's not behind it, he's certainly right at the top.
In conclusion, damn, Jane Espenson! Write for all of my shows, for real!
And I'm sure there are other things I want to talk about, but this window has been open for the last 45 minutes with nothing more added, so I'll stop and see if LJ will let me post this. And then to bed!